Securing The Mexico-U.S. Border With A ‘Green’ Wall

National borders are always in a state of constant flux. Period! To be sure, they are never permanent fixtures but instead change as often as the current political and economic winds that might happen to blow.

What’s more, borders between states do not only mirror the nations which build or resist them, but they vary immensely.

From oceans and rivers and mountains to major roads, memorials, guard posts, landmine fields, demilitarized zones, high-tech fences or steel reinforced concrete barriers, they indeed serve as either reminders of peace and good will or deadly disputes and ongoing hatreds.

Adapting to the Land Instead of Scarring the Environment

Since the Department of Homeland Security is accepting bids for President Donald Trump’s “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful wall” to be built between Mexico and the U.S., one idea would be a “Green” Wall. Indeed, it would not only ensure the natural beauty and connectivity of the 2,000-long-mile region, starting with the Gulf of Mexico and ending at the Pacific Ocean, but it would safeguard the ecosystems of the life giving Rio Grande (Rio Bravo del Norte) and Colorado River-Delta as they wind their way through the canyons and mountain peaks of the Chihuahua and Sonora Deserts.

A natural Green Wall would also protect migratory land animals that have existed there, some for 20 million years.

The U.S. 2006 Secure Fence Act, for instance, already exposed many unintended ecological consequences. In addition to thousands of Mule Deer being cut off and killed from their natural habitats and breeding areas, the barrier impacted the desert Big Horn Sheep.

Unable to reach grazing areas, they’ve been more susceptible to diseases or worse yet, starved to death. Endangered species will suffer a similar fate too, like the North American Jaguar. And then there’s always erosion and pollution.

A Green Wall would surely preserve the beautiful flora and fauna of the region. Indeed, there are many types of Cacti, a family comprising 130 genera-with as many shapes and sizes. Since Cacti are drought resistance, water preservation, already in short supply for the Rio Grande and Colorado, let alone constructing a 2,000-mile-long wall, would be no problem.

What’s more, they can be used for food or grown for fodder and forage, and prevent erosion and water loss by slowing evaporation. Finally, the Cacti are also native to all of America, in need of no strictly reinforced state boundaries or walls.

WWFFD, Or What Would the Founding Fathers Do?

A Green Wall would solve the problem of who’s actually going to pay for it, and help heal the many divisions the original wall created. Though the wall might have galvanized some of Trump’s supporters, fiscal conservatives fear taxpayers will fund it.

What’s more, the 12 million others living along the border worry about the encroachment of security forces and military, including more “accidental” shootings and lawsuits, but they foresee an economic collapse in their towns if the artificial wall is built. A Green Wall might even heal the current and deep divide between Mexico and the U.S.

A natural and beautified border would certainly mirror the Founding Fathers’ passion for nature, plants, agriculture and animals, all of which was woven deeply into the fabric of America until the onslaught of mass industrialization, consumerism and a technocratic age.

From George Washington to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, they nurtured and preserved indigenous plants and animals. What’s more, the Founding Fathers believed their passion for nature and plants were political acts, bringing freedom and independence that was rooted and grounded in the land.

They furthermore condemned the Virginians for their ruthless exploitation of the soil and the forests, fearing that nature’s equilibrium would be unbalanced. “Humankind, James Madison believed, could not expect nature to be “made subservient to the use of man.”1
He furthermore thought people could only find their place within the “symmetry of nature” without destroying it.”

To be sure, America’s “natural” landscape, solid and plants played a crucial role in the creation of a Republic, a Republic that was never destined to become a global empire and construct walls and demilitarized zones.

Insecurity Leads to Unsightly Borders-Destroys Liberty Cactus

Its estimated Trump’s “Great Wall of America” will cost at least $37 billion – only to begin with. This might provide some employment while enriching the coffers of monopolists and militarists and surveillance state, but it still won‘t deal with the real and natural border crises.

To be sure, parity, economic and education incentives must be prioritized, along with millions of Americans addicted to, and dependent on, Mexico’s narcotics/sex-trafficking cartel trades.

Moreover, border walls seldom eliminate a shared history and culture, including extended families and heritages.

Border security is important, but it should never be used to enrich some while imprisoning others or discounting their experiences. In this case, building a steel reinforced concrete wall facing Mexico encircled with drones and military forces, will imprison more than just millions of people.

It will indeed destroy the Liberty Cactus, sentencing many endangered plants and animals to death. It will moreover serve as a symbolic reminder of a nation that not only continues to live in denial, but is suffering from hyper insecurity because it is no longer rooted in the land or it’s past.

Consequently, securing the border with a Green Wall would show a sense of self assurance. Self assurance is indeed always better than any overly defensive and antagonistic militarized border.

(Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501: An A-Z Reading on Conscientious Political Thought and Action, Some Nations Above God: 52 Weekly Reflections On Modern-Day Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of John‘s Apocalyptic Vision, and The Other Side Of Christianity: Reflections on Faith, Politics, Spirituality, History, and Peace. He is a correspondent for www.WN.com. You can read more of Dallas’ writings at www.beverlydarling.com and wn.com//dallasdarling.)

1 Wulf, Andrea. The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation Created an American Eden. William Heinemann: London, Great Britain, 2011., p.6-9.

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US House of Representatives approves Mexico border wall funds

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